Elucidating influences on superior‐subordinate communication: Attributional confidence and organizational control expectancies

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 255-263

  Avtgis, Theodore A ^a   Kassing, Jeffrey W ^b  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

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EID: 70449559138     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824090109384805     Document Type: Article

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